Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A group of people watch

A group of people watch from a hill as the cars pass on the road below

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

first President of the Royal Society

Charles I making a present of his portrait to Rubens who comes to take his leave

A neat play on words as Punch illustrates the popularity of golf in Scotland as well as increasing meteorological knowledge

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A group of people watch'Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade', 1904. 'Scene: the Board of Trade. Time: office hours in the early 'eighties. Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade are taken unawares by their President, Sir Josiah Chamberlain'. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904).